Professional summary

HyeJin Kim is a senior scenario developer at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology with 17 years of experience working with data, projection models, indicators, scenarios and stakeholders across disciplines and sectors from international development to biodiversity conservation. Her research aims to integrate complementary multi-scale data, policy, and scientific frameworks to enable their operationalisation in the implementation of biodiversity conservation, climate neutrality and societal wellbeing goals. 

HyeJin has been working with a range of inter-governmental, government, research, civil society and donor agencies in improving the use of scenarios, models and indicators in informing decision processes. Her current research focuses on co-developing nature-people positive futures with a broad range of stakeholders, coupling biodiversity, climate and economic scenarios and modelling and cross-sectoral policy coherence across the regional scale for societal and ecological transformations. 

Her research interests include biodiversity conservation, nature and people positive scenarios, biodiversity-climate-economy and conservation evidence, multidimensional indicators for biodiversity and nature's contributions to people, evidence synthesis.

 

Current projects: BIONEXT (Horizon Europe), KMGBF (Defra), Korean Nature Futures (NC International)

Previous projects: Nature Futures (IPBES), EBV2020 (GEO BON), MDI4B (BioDivFund)

 

Web tools and apps

MS Office, R, ArcGIS, QGIS

Other Publications

Kim, H., Peterson, G. D., Cheung, W. W. L., Ferrier, S., Alkemade, R., Arneth, A., Kuiper, J. J., Okayasu, S., Pereira, L., Acosta, L. A., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Den Belder, E., Eddy, T. D., Johnson, J. A., Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, S., Kok, M. T. J., Leadley, P., Leclère, D., Lundquist, C. J., … Pereira, H. M. (2023). Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures. Global Environmental Change, 82, 102681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102681

Durán, A. P., Kuiper, J. J., Aguiar, A. P. D., Cheung, W. W. L., Diaw, M. C., Halouani, G., Hashimoto, S., Gasalla, M. A., Peterson, G. D., Schoolenberg, M. A., Abbasov, R., Acosta, L. A., Armenteras, D., Davila, F., Denboba, M. A., Harrison, P. A., Harhash, K. A., Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, S., Kim, H., … Pereira, L. M. (2023). Bringing the Nature Futures Framework to life: Creating a set of illustrative narratives of nature futures. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01316-1

Haga, C., Maeda, M., Hotta, W., Matsui, T., Nakaoka, M., Morimoto, J., Shibata, H., Hashimoto, S., Saito, O., Okayasu, S., Kim, H., & Peterson, G. (2023). Modeling desirable futures at local scale by combining the nature futures framework and multi-objective optimization. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01301-8 

Perino, A., Pereira, H. M., Felipe‐Lucia, M., Kim, H., Kühl, H. S., Marselle, M. R., Meya, J. N., Meyer, C., Navarro, L. M., van Klink, R., Albert, G., Barratt, C. D., Bruelheide, H., Cao, Y., Chamoin, A., Darbi, M., Dornelas, M., Eisenhauer, N., Essl, F., … Bonn, A. (2022). Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation. Conservation Letters, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12848

Mansur, A. V., McDonald, R. I., Güneralp, B., Kim, H., de Oliveira, J. A. P., Callaghan, C. T., Hamel, P., Kuiper, J. J., Wolff, M., Liebelt, V., Martins, I. S., Elmqvist, T., & Pereira, H. M. (2022). Nature futures for the urban century: Integrating multiple values into urban management. Environmental Science & Policy, 131, 46–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.01.013   

Matias, D. M. S., Kim, H., Anticamara, J. A., Matias, K. M. S., & Tibig, L. V. (2021). Emerging response options and scenarios of slow onset events related to climate change in Southeast Asia. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 50, 175–184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.004https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.04.00

Bonn, A., Darbi, M., Kim, H., & Marquard, E. (2020). Conservation goals in international policies. In W. J. Sutherland, P. N. M. Brotherton, Z. G. Davies, N. Ockendon, N. Pettorelli, & J. A. Vickery (Eds.), Conservation Research, Policy and Practice (1st ed., pp. 241–262). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108638210.015

Pereira, L. M., Davies, K. K., Belder, E., Ferrier, S., Karlsson‐Vinkhuyzen, S., Kim, H., Kuiper, J. J., Okayasu, S., Palomo, M. G., Pereira, H. M., Peterson, G., Sathyapalan, J., Schoolenberg, M., Alkemade, R., Carvalho Ribeiro, S., Greenaway, A., Hauck, J., King, N., Lazarova, T., … Lundquist, C. J. (2020). Developing multiscale and integrative nature–people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework. People and Nature, 2(4), 1172–1195. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10146 https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10146

Rosa, I. M. D., Purvis, A., Alkemade, R., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Ferrier, S., Guerra, C. A., Hurtt, G., Kim, H., Leadley, P., Martins, I. S., Popp, A., Schipper, A. M., van Vuuren, D., & Pereira, H. M. (2020). Challenges in producing policy-relevant global scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Global Ecology and Conservation, 22, e00886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00886

Kim, H., Rosa, I. M. D., Alkemade, R., Leadley, P., Hurtt, G., Popp, A., van Vuuren, D. P., Anthoni, P., Arneth, A., Baisero, D., Caton, E., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Chini, L., De Palma, A., Di Fulvio, F., Di Marco, M., Espinoza, F., Ferrier, S., Fujimori, S., … Pereira, H. M. (2018). A protocol for an intercomparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios. Geoscientific Model Development, 11(11), 4537–4562. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4537-2018